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Help us - APC pleads with CSOs over forthcoming presidential election

- Hadiza Usman pleads with the civil society to help monitor the rescheduled general elections in Nigeria

- Usman explains that the APC is not leaving out any aspect of the process no matter how minute

- The APC director of mobilisation says all the aspects of the election should be monitored by the civil society

Hadiza Usman, the director of contact and mobilisation of the presidential campaign council of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reportedly urged the civil society to help monitor INEC’s preparedness ahead of the rescheduled elections.

Legit.ng learnt that Hadiza Usman said this when she visited the ‘situation room’ of one of the civil society organisations in Abuja.

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TVC reports that she emphasized that the focus should not only be on the elections but the entire process leading up to voting.

According to her, the APC is concerned with the entire process including the smallest details during the exercise which even include such areas as reconfiguration and recharging of the smart card readers.

Legit.ng earlier reported that the national chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, alleged that INEC appointed some members of the PDP as presiding officers in some states and local government areas.

Oshiomhole made the allegation in a statement issued after the party’s caucus meeting held at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Monday, February 18.

He urged that electoral commission to address the allegations made about the inclusion of PDP members as presiding officers to ensure fairness and credibility of the electoral process.

“We observed that the list of presiding officers in the states and local government areas published by INEC prior to the aborted February 16, elections contained names of mostly PDP card carrying members and urged INEC to take steps to correct this anomaly to ensure fairness and credibility of the electoral process," Oshiomhole said.

It also reported that the presidential candidate of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, recently accused the APC of planning to use the military to intimidate voters in order to pave the way for rigging during the general elections.

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Atiku made the allegation when he accused President Muhammadu Buhari of showing complete disregard to the laws of this country following the president’s statement that ballot box snatchers would be doing so at their own risk.

Atiku in a statement on Monday, February 18, through his special assistant on public communication, Phrank Shaibu, described Buhari’s statement as inciting violence ahead of the general elections.

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